Nguyen Van Thinh

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Vietnamese. (May 2014) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Vietnamese article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Vietnamese Wikipedia article at [[:vi:Nguyễn Văn Thinh]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|vi|Nguyễn Văn Thinh}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Nguyễn Văn Thinh
1st President of the Autonomous Republic of Cochinchina
In office 1 June 1946 – 10 November 1946
Vice President	Nguyễn Văn Xuân
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Lê Văn Hoạch
Personal details
Born	1888
Died	10 November 1946 (aged 57–58) Saigon, French Cochinchina
Political party	Indochinese Democratic Party

Nguyễn Văn Thinh (1888 – 10 November 1946, Saigon) was the first President of Cochinchina. Thinh was a French citizen and joined the Constitutionalist Party in 1926. He founded the Cochinchinese Democratic Party in 1937.^[1] He became chief of the provisional government on March 26, 1946, and provisional president on June 1. He felt a loss of face when the French negotiated with the Viet Minh, ignoring his government. "I am being compelled to play a farce," he said. He died, an apparent suicide while still in office, on November 10.